Saturday, September 13, 2014

Clarke_emf_updates

Stephen Clarke, a protester against wi-fi in the classroom, is in receipt of his medical notes as a prelude to his psychiatric tribunal on Tuesday.

“I couldn’t believe that a human being could write something like that about another human being after only knowing them no more than five hours - and I’m being generous at that,” said Clarke.

The notes were prepared by his Consultant Psychiatrist Dr. Ann McDonnell at the Mater Psychiatric Unit, Belfast during Clarke’s three-month incarceration during which he was refused permission to attend a court hearing because the doctor claimed he was too ill. Clarke was given the notes by his lawyer, Paul McCann of Madden & Finucane Solicitors in preparation for his hearing on Tuesday.

“This is the most condemning thing I’ve ever read in my life,” claimed Clarke still keeping his Irish sense of irony. “Reading the report,” he added, “I would even condemn myself.”

Clarke noted that the doctor picked up on every comment and “twisted it”. As an example he noted that she recorded him ”reading the Bible and the Koran and praying but not following any particular religion.”

Clarke’s greatest objection, however, is Dr. McDonnell’s observation that Clarke is “a severe risk to himself and others.” By contrast, Clarke reported that nursing staff rolled their eyes when he read the report. “You’re the nicest, most placid person in here,” one nurse reportedly told him.

The Irish in Britain Representation Group (IBRG) have taken up Clarke’s case. “Stephen Clarke, will have been incarcerated, against his will, for 101 day on the 16 Sep 2014,” observed Patrick Cullinane. Tim Fleming noted, “Having attended a CCHR UK conference at Ealing West London yesterday we discussed Stephen Clarke's case and was assured by their CEO and MD they would give us their full support also the GMB. NW will be closely tracking this case. I record Dr.Thomas Szasz’, MD, (Professor of Psychiatary Emeritus) statement ;

"If some doctors harm- torture rather than treat, murder the soul rather than minister the body - that is in part because society, through the state asks them, and pays them, to do so.”

Writing from Sweden, Sharon Ingram, a fellow native of Co. Tyrone, said, “As it stands, they are violating the EU council and Parliament Resolutions on wireless technology. Do they even know of the EU resolutions on microwave technology or the WHO 2B classification of microwaves, or the fact that in Sweden the Swedish Board of Health has confirmed electrohypersensitivity an official disability, or that microwaves are so strong that hospitals use them to repair bone fractures, or that microwaves were used to control protestors at Greenham Common and (according to Barrie Trower) .... Catholics? Not knowing any of this would indicate they are incompetent and in no position to judge anyone who objects to microwaves.”

Regarding the following updates, it is relevant that a Class Action suit about the danges of Smart Meters is to be filed in Oklahoma. Also note, The Tetra signal is being blamed for locking drivers out of their cars in the U.K. This phenomenon has also occurred in Ireland. “In a similar way, high power radar pulses from the Fylingdales military base trigger the immobilizing devices of many makes of cars and motorcycles.”

Martin Weatherall’s W.E.E.P. News warns people to avoid Penticton, British Columbia because free wi-fi will soon be available in the town’s core. For residents of Lucan, Co. Dublin it is too late. The South Dublin County Council decided to offer the inhabitants free wi-fi in 2013 “to improve retail opportunities for local businesses, shoppers and visitors to the area”

On October 5, 2012, the Quebec Energy Board ave the green light to Hydro-Quebec to begin Phase 1 of the deployment of “new generation” electric meters on all buildings in the Greater Montreal area. Then on June 13, 2014, it approved their deployment elsewhere in Quebec, after refusing to reconsider the health effects of the radiofrequency emissions (pulsed microwaves) of these devices, despite the hundreds of testimonies it received about this, and without ordering an impact study, despite repeated requests to that effect.

In fact, hundreds of thousands of Quebecers are very concerned about the effects on their health and that of their family from continuous exposure to these powerful pulsed emissions, with peak emissions exceeding 50,000 microwatts per square meter (µW/m2). This was revealed in a Leger Marketing poll in early April 2014, with 500 respondents from Greater Montreal, in which 63% of them indicated they were concerned about this. In addition, 52% of the citizens polled said they opposed the continued deployment of these devices if an impact study isn’t first performed to determine whether or not they are harmful to human health.

Alas, like Hydro-Quebec, the Quebec Energy Board does not care, it seems, since its core mandate is to review the requests from this Crown utility mainly concerning their financial impact on its profitability. And as a matter of fact, because this type of device is precisely designed to allow for time-of-use pricing, 73% of poll respondents fear, once all the meters are deployed, that there will most likely be a rate increase at the times of peak electricity consumption, which could inflate their utility bill by 15 to 20%, as occurred in Ontario and elsewhere.

Worried about having those pesky counters imposed upon them against their will, many citizens have mobilized and, notably, received support from their municipal council in this very unequal struggle. To date, over one hundred municipalities (111 as of August 26, 2014), representing more than two million Quebecers have called for a moratorium on their deployment and/or a free opt-out. Considered to be exorbitant, unfair and punitive damages ($17 per month plus $98 initially), the fees for a “non communicating” meter (with no radiofrequency transmitter) are only intended to deter customers from opting-out. That didn’t stop more than 5600 households to do so, as of May 1st. And that’s not counting the tens of thousands who managed to prevent installers from taking away their old and safe electromechanical meters, which are apparently three times more durable than those fragile “smart” meters, that will need to be replaced every 15 years.

However, due to the numerous pleas it received, Hydro-Quebec has agreed to reduce its opting-out fees which, once approved by the energy board, would be $48 for the installation of a non communicating meter and $8 per month for manual meter reading of the electricity consumption – all the details HERE. It’s not free as requested, but at least the efforts of opponents will not have been wasted! And the pill will be less hard to swallow for the 1.8 million customers who already had these dangerous devices forced upon them, and who want to get rid of them.

Nevertheless, one must know that the World Health Organization has classified those radiofrequencies (RF) as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” in 2011, and thousands of independent scientific studies have also shown that repeated exposure to low RF levels can be genotoxic (DNA breakage) and neurotoxic (various neurological consequences). If Hydro-Quebec is so adamant on imposing this technology, it is because it can hide behind Health Canada’s Safety Code 6, its outdated RF exposure guidelines adopted in 1979. Indeed, this Code 6 recognizes only thermal (warming) effects from RF and ignores the biological effects observed at exposure levels as low as 100 µW/m2 (maximum recommended within a house by the Council of Europe). Health Canada claims that there is no possible biological effects below the 6 million µW/m2 permitted by the Code 6, while countries like Switzerland, Italy, Russia and China have adopted exposure limitations much more stringent, in order to abide by the precautionary principle.

But the problems with this technology don’t stop there. With the highly detailed power consumption data these meters send to Hydro-Quebec, it is possible to draw a clear picture of our lifestyles and even of the types of devices we own. Despite their encryption, hackers, and even the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) or the National Security Agency (NSA) could get their hands on this data, and thus be able to surreptitiously monitor our every move within the sanctuary of our home. In addition to being a potential violation of privacy and a serious health risk which, in the long run, could multiply the number of cases of the nightmarish electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS), these devices have the tendency to catch fire when their built-in protection against power surges fails. The EMF Safety Network compiles the cases of smart meters that have caused fires.

If all of this above has convinced you to resist, know that you are not alone. Over 5700 Quebecers have signed a petition indicating their desire to not contend with such a risk. To join them and learn more, visit JeGardeMonCompteur.com. Be sure to read the testimonials of people already affected. And talk about this to others, even if, unfortunately, for many it’s already too late…

Jean Hudon is the co-founder and webmaster of the Coalition québécoise de lutte contre la pollution électromagnétique (CQLPE – Quebec’s Coalition Against Electromagnetic Pollution), and a member of the organizing committee of the campaign Je garde mon compteur.

EMFs: A Hidden Danger of Air Travel

Some people are nervous when it comes to air travel and for good reason. The publicity of events like the US Airways Flight 1549 crash into the Hudson River and the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 bizarre disappearance are enough to put some travelers on edge when entering an airplane. However, these occurrences are very rare.

The real threat, however, lies in what is in every airport and airplane, regardless of the flight number.

EMF Radiation

EMFs, also known as electromagnetic fields, are invisible lines of force that emanate from any electrical or wireless device. Low-frequency EMFs are emitted by electricity and appliances, while high-frequency EMFs are generated by wireless devices.

These man-made EMFs interfere with our natural EMF by cutting us off from the earth’s electromagnetic field. Man-made EMFs also enter into our bodies.

Since we resonate naturally with the earth’s electromagnetic field, which nurtures and creates balance in the body, any interference or removal from this frequency can cause harmful health effects.

Nowhere do these negative health effects become more pronounced than during air travel. After one moves through the airport filled with metal detectors, moving sidewalks, monitors, and more, they enter the most dangerous and concentrated source of EMFs—the airplane.

To begin to understand the EMF exposure, first consider the sources impacting the airplane:• Radar from the ground, as well as the plane and other planes• Jet engine• Cockpit computers• Electronic sensors• Communications equipment• Electrical wiring throughout the cabin• High levels of static electricity generated in the fuselage• Wi-Fi signals

Plus, flight passengers are also saddled with cell phones and laptop computers.

A 3.5-hour flight at altitudes of 30,000 feet or higher can expose someone to a greater level of radiation than a chest X-ray.

If that is not scary enough, consider that the proximity and interaction with the earth’s surface helps determine our protection from man-made EMFs. The further we get away from it, the less protection we receive.

Flying at 30,000 feet offers us absolutely no protection and severely interrupts our natural synchronicity with the earth’s healing energy field. This is the worst-case scenario with regard to our well-being: high, concentrated doses of EMFs with zero EMF protection.

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Physiological Effects

What happens to the body in the presence of EMFs? The following are possible physiological effects:• Acid production• Oxygen deficiency• Cellular edema• Exacerbation of existing symptoms• Acceleration of microorganism replication• Biological disorganization• Increase in pain and inflammation• Catabolic hormone production• Production of free radicals and metabolic toxins• Speed-up of electrical activity of the brain

These effects may cause jet lag, digestive problems, headaches, aches and pains, and foggy thinking, as well as accelerate infections.

Taking steps to stay well hydrated and stress-free, along with consuming probiotics and wearing EMF-deflecting devices, can help you have a safer air travel experience.

Offset the effects of excessive EMFs during air travel with these tips:

• Drink plenty of water prior to and during flight• Get enough rest prior to the flight• Plan ahead to reduce any last-minute stressors• Consume probiotic-rich foods and drinks for several days prior to the flight• Don’t eat while airborne• Wear EMF-neutralizing or deflecting technology during the flight

Legal and Public Health Problems of the Wireless Age

Guest post by Deborah Kopald

[Deborah Kopald (BA, Harvard; MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management) is an environmental health and public policy consultant and author who has developed and overseen the passage of legislative initiatives and has served as a guest expert at various media outlets. In 2013, she organized and moderated The Conference on Corporate Interference with Science and Health in New York City. The conference proceedings were published in Reviews on Environmental Health.]

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The use of Wi-Fi and other wireless technologies has created problems. “An Open Letter to Phillips Exeter Academy about Wi-Fi”, which I wrote to my alma mater, details the public health problem Wi-Fi has created and some legal ramifications of its use.

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The National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) in conjunction with the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (the United States Access Board) put out a report in 2005 that stated that for a building to be accessible, Wi-Fi should be avoided in favor of fiber optic connectivity; if used, Wi-Fi was to be confined by foil-backed drywall or equivalent barrier.

For decades, scientists have known
that migratory birds rely on the Earth’s magnetic field as one way to help
orient themselves and fly the right direction.

But researchers in Germany have
documented for the first time that the electromagnetic “noise” produced by
modern societies could cause those avian navigation systems to go haywire,
according to findings published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

“Basically, anything you plug into
a plug will sent out electromagnetic noise at some frequency,” said Henrik Mouritsen,
one of the paper’s co-authors and a professor of neurosensory sciences at the
University of Oldenburg in Germany. He likened the overall effect in urban
environments to an orchestra of potential disruptions at various wavelengths.

What might that mean for the
migratory birds trying to maneuver through this busy electromagnetic landscape?

The good news is that they possess
other navigation systems, such as relying on the sun and the stars, Mouritsen
said. But an overcast day in an urban area teeming with electromagnetic noise
could, at least theoretically, cause problems.

“If it doesn’t have any compass
available, it might not migrate at all ... or it might
fly in a random direction,” he said. “We don’t really know.”

Mouritsen and his colleagues
stumbled upon the startling findings by chance, and the conclusions were seven
years in the making.

Years ago, they were trying to
conduct a basic, often-repeated experiment in which European robins are placed
in an enclosed, funnel-shaped container lined with scratch-sensitive paper
during the migration season. Even inside a cage, without visual cues, the birds
typically orient themselves using their internal compasses and scratch in the
appropriate direction of migration.

But again and again, the birds in
Oldenburg could not seem to orient themselves, Mouritsen said. Only when
researchers covered the small wooden huts with metal screening and connected it
to a grounding wire, blocking man-made electromagnetic noise, did the birds go
in the right direction again.

“It’s significant, because we found
a very clear, repeatable effect of electromagnetic noise made by electrical
equipment that prevents a bird, in this case a European robin, from using its
magnetic compass,” Mouritsen said.

He said relatively minor levels of
electromagnetic activity, with an intensity 1,000 times below limits laid out
by the World Health Organization, appeared to be enough to disrupt the birds.
The interference that switched off the birds’ internal compasses did not appear
to come from cellphone signals or power lines, as their frequencies were either
too low or too high. Rather, signals in the range of AM radio stations or
fields generated by other electronic equipment are more likely to blame,
although researchers have not pinpointed the precise cause.

“The levels of radio-frequency
radiation that affected the bird’s orientation are substantially below anything
previously thought to be biophysically plausible, and far below levels
recognized as affecting human health,” Joseph L. Kirschvink, a professor at the
California Institute of Technology, wrote in an essay accompanying Wednesday’s
study in Nature.

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A ruby-throated hummingbird from the collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. The ruby-throated hummingbird is among the top 10 species in our region most vulnerable to collisions with buildings.Matt McClain/The Washington Post

The researchers also cautioned that
the effect could be an intensely localized one. Those birds that could not
orient themselves in Oldenburg? When researchers took them outside the town
limits to a more rural area, they easily found their bearings.

Roswitha
Wiltschko, a longtime bird navigation researcher at the Goethe
University in Frankfurt, said Wednesday’s study seemed very well done but left
unanswered important questions about the precise source of the disruptions. She
said during decades in which she and her husband had studied the same type of
migratory birds in Frankfurt — a much larger city than Oldenburg, population
160,000 — she had never seen evidence of “electric smog” interfering with the
birds’ internal navigation.

“We never used any shielding, and
our birds were well-oriented in the field,” Wiltschko said. “Without knowing
the origin of these magnetic fields, it’s hard to know what it means ... In order to assess this, we have to know more about where they
come from. ... It’s really mysterious.”

Still, the Naturestudy raises
intriguing questions about the sensory mechanisms inside migratory birds, and
how it is that man-made electrical outputs could be scrambling nature’s
navigation systems.

What actions could humans take to
avoid the potential of causing trouble for migratory birds? Mouritsen said it
would be “completely unrealistic” to expect civilization to unplug everything,
everywhere, but small steps could help. For instance, perhaps we should refrain
from placing strong AM radio emitters along routes where huge concentrations of
birds migrate.

Kirschvink thinks such ideas are
worth examining.

“If the effect reported by the
authors stands the acid test of reproducibility,” he wrote, “we might consider
gradually abandoning our use of this portion of the electromagnetic spectrum
and implementing engineering approaches to minimize incidental low-frequency
noise, to help migratory birds find their way.”

Electromagnetic noise is emitted everywhere humans use electronic devices. For decades, it has been hotly debated whether man-made electric and magnetic fields affect biological processes, including human health1, 2, 3, 4, 5. So far, no putative effect of anthropogenic electromagnetic noise at intensities below the guidelines adopted by the World Health Organization1, 2 has withstood the test of independent replication under truly blinded experimental conditions. No effect has therefore been widely accepted as scientifically proven1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Here we show that migratory birds are unable to use their magnetic compass in the presence of urban electromagnetic noise. When European robins, Erithacus rubecula, were exposed to the background electromagnetic noise present in unscreened wooden huts at the University of Oldenburg campus, they could not orient using their magnetic compass. Their magnetic orientation capabilities reappeared in electrically grounded, aluminium-screened huts, which attenuated electromagnetic noise in the frequency range from 50kHz to 5MHz by approximately two orders of magnitude. When the grounding was removed or when broadband electromagnetic noise was deliberately generated inside the screened and grounded huts, the birds again lost their magnetic orientation capabilities. The disruptive effect of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields is not confined to a narrow frequency band and birds tested far from sources of electromagnetic noise required no screening to orient with their magnetic compass. These fully double-blinded tests document a reproducible effect of anthropogenic electromagnetic noise on the behaviour of an intact vertebrate.

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While I have always been extremely health conscious and am presently in excellent health, I did become temporarily out-of-commission (i.e. I was really sick) in 2005 with a number of at the time unexplainable symptoms. I was quite puzzled at the time because I had been eating mainly organically grown food, drinking spring water, doing Yoga every morning, and going to the gym several times a week. In other words, I was doing everything one is supposed to do to stay healthy. I was not supposed to get sick. It took me six months before discovering or even imagining the main source of the problem - which was in fact "overexposure to electromagnetic" - especially microwave - radiation. I was living within 200 meters of two cell phone towers at the time and within 500 meters of a 3rd one with numerous WiFi signals bleeding into my apartment from adjacent neighbors. I developed a host of symptoms, which are found in what has been misleadingly described as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) -- but much more accurately described as Radio Wave or Microwave Sickness. Large numbers of people in the USA suddenly started getting sick in 1984...